Hogan sued Gawker after it posted a video of him having sex with his then-best friend's wife

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Hulk Hogan leaves he court house after a jury returned its decision Monday, March 21, 2016, in St. Petersburg, Fla. A jury hit Gawker Media with $15 million in punitive damages and its owner with $10 million, adding to the $115 million it awarded last week for publishing a sex video of Hogan.

Moments after a Florida jury hit Gawker Media and its founder with $25 million in punitive damages for publishing a sex tape of Hulk Hogan, the former pro wrestler told a gaggle of reporters that he and his legal team "made history."

Hogan said Monday evening that he thought "we've protected a lot of people from going through what I went through."

The president and general counsel of Gawker Media said in a statement that the media company expects the multimillion dollar award will be overturned by an appeals court.

Heather Dietrick said in an email Monday night that because the jury was prohibited from knowing about "prior court rulings in favor of Gawker, prohibited from seeing critical evidence gathered by the FBI and prohibited from hearing from the most important witness, Bubba Clem," that an appeals court could overturn the case.

During brief closing arguments Monday, Hogan's lawyer Kenneth Turkel said Gawker Media's gross revenues in 2015 were $48.7 million and that founder Nick Denton has a total of $121 million, including a $3.6 million Manhattan condo. Gawker Media is worth $83 million, the lawyers said.

Daulerio, the editor, has no assets, the lawyers said. They said Daulerio has $27,000 in student loan debt.

"I believe his privacy was violated, and that's not OK," she said. "The video was worse than I expected ... not so much the sex part of it but the conversation. I just feel like if he knew he was being videotaped, he would not have spoken about the things he spoke about."